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by Mandy Kachur
Have you ever been in a pin-drop quiet medical waiting room or pharmacy and needed to discuss your medical condition with a person behind the counter? Was it uncomfortable because you knew others in the room could hear you? Technically, this is a situation ripe for HIPAA speech privacy problems, where bystanders are able to overhear your medical conversations.
This situation happens. For example, a pharmacist can violate speech privacy laws by